Rob Vincent

nerd of all trades

Muppetational May 2025 day 14 – a “Sesame Street” human

Marker drawing of "Sesame Street's" Mad Painter character, as played by Paul Benedict. He smiles and holds a red number 1 up to the matching green number 1 he has just painted on the wall behind him, as green paint drips from the paintbrush in his other hand. The drawing is signed with my "RV" signature glyph and dated 5-14-25. The green, red, grey, yellow, black, and pink markers used to draw the image rest on the table above and below the card.

Actor Paul Benedict starred in a series of Sesame Street short films in which he played a graffiti artist obsessed with painting numbers on things. Public TV was wild in the early 1970s.

In his films he painted the numbers 2 through 11, but never the number 1. I felt like correcting this historical omission for him.